Archive for the ‘Gaza – Palestine (فلسطین)’ Category
Scenes from the Gaza Strip
Posted January 19, 2009
on:Scenes from the Gaza Strip
Strip. On January 3rd, the Israeli Defense Force ground troops began
entering Gaza, soon cutting the territory in half. Israel’s stated
goals are to end rocket attacks originating from Gaza – which had
increased sharply following the end of a cease-fire agreement in
December. As Israeli troops began entering Gaza, foreign reporters and
photographers were denied entry to the territory by Israel, halting any
reports originating from Gaza except those coming from Palestinians. As
of today, since the beginning of this campaign, there have reportedly
been over 650 deaths in Gaza, and 10 Israelis killed, including 7
soldiers. Israel suspended operations for a few hours today, to allow
humanitarian aid to reach the people of Gaza. Officials from France,
Egypt and Turkey are working with Israel and the Palestinians to draw
up a cease-fire plan, but many details still remain unresolved. See
previous Big Picture entry on Israel and Gaza from a week ago. (34 photos total)
explosion is seen as missiles fired from an Israeli aircraft fall
towards a target in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli
side of the border, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Gil Nechushtan)
The
moon is seen as an Israeli military attack helicopter flies over the
northern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009.
Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early
Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest
city. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) #
Israeli
infantry soldiers walk into Gaza on January 04, 2009 on the border
between Gaza and Israel. Israeli forces are battling Hamas fighters as
they attempt to take the rocket launch areas used by Hamas since
Israeli troops entered Gaza after nightfall on Saturday. It is expected
that this will be the first wave of assault, with some 10,000 Israeli
troops and hundreds of tanks massed on the Gaza border. (Uriel
Sinai/Getty Images) #
An
Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a
target in the Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza border, Sunday, Jan. 4,
2009. Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses,
mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed forward with its offensive
against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers on Monday. (AP Photo) #
Warning:
This image contains graphic
or objectionable content
click here to view it.
The
feet of one of three Palestinian siblings from the Al-samoni family,
killed by an Israeli tank shell, are seen in the mortuary of Al-Shifa
hospital, on January 5, 2009 in Gaza City. Seven members from the
Al-samoni family were killed including the mother, three children and a
baby, when an Israeli shell struck their house south of Gaza city.
(Abid Katib/Getty Images) #
Warning:
This image contains graphic
or objectionable content
click here to view it.
People
gather around bodies of Palestinians near a U.N.-run school in Jabalya
in the northern Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. Israeli tank fire killed up
to 40 Palestinians at the United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on
Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. Israeli officials claim
they had targeted Hamas soldiers operating in the area. (REUTERS/Ismail
Zaydah) #
Israel and Gaza
Posted January 19, 2009
on:
A Palestinian man inspects the damage where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants – intended for a target in Israel – accidentally hit a building in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Palestinian Iyad Dremly, who works for the Palestinian Center for Conflict Resolution, was injured in the explosion, Palestinian sources said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) #
Wounded Palestinians are treated on the floor of crowded Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2008, following an Israeli air strike on the nearby Jabalia refugee camp. Israeli tanks massed at the Gaza border today as warplanes continued pounding Hamas targets in the densely populated enclave. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) #
Samera Baalusha (34) (right) sits with her daughter Eman (15) and surviving son Mohamad (15 months) while waiting to see the body of her 4-year-old daughter Jawaher Baalusha during the funeral held for Jawher and her four other sisters who were all killed in an Israeli missile strike, on December 29, 2008 in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip. Jawher Baalusha and her sisters were killed during an Israeli air raid while they were sleeping together in their bedroom. Medics stated that the raid had targeted a mosque near their home in Jabalia. (Abid Katib/Getty Images) #
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish flames at a medical warehouse after an Israeli airstrike targeted at a fuel tank nearby in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers Sunday, pounding Hamas targets, smugglers’ tunnels and a central prison. (AP Photo/Xinhua) #
A Palestinian man looks out towards destroyed Hamas government buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Early Tuesday, Israeli aircraft dropped at least 16 bombs on five Hamas government buildings in a Gaza City complex, destroying them, setting fires and sending rubble flying for hundreds of yards, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) #
A medic crouches over the body of an Israeli man after he was killed in a rocket attack launched from the Gaza Strip and hit the southern Israeli town of Netivot on December 27, 2008 following Israeli bombardment on the Palestinian costal strip. The rocket attack killed one man and wounded four others, according to the Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross. (HAIM HORENSTEIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Mahmoud Tark, an nine-year-old injured Palestinian boy, is transported by Red Crescent officials on an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to a hospital in Al-Arish December 30, 2008. Palestinians wounded in the Israeli attack on Gaza trickled into Egypt on Monday after a day and a half of confusion and disagreement between the Hamas and the Egyptian government. (REUTERS/Amr Dalsh (EGYPT) #
Eli Azran father of Irit Shitrit (39), a mother of four, leans over her dead body as he mourns during her funeral on December 30, 2008 in Ashdod, Israel. Shitrit was killed yesterday by a Hamas rocket in Ashdod, Israel, after hearing a warning siren and taking shelter in a roadside bus stop. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) #
Gaza Victims
Posted January 5, 2009
on:All US media today carried stories of an Israeli “assassination” of a senior Hamas official. Those two children were also killed in that assassination. (And don’t feel sorry for them: tomorrow Ethan Bronner and Taghreed El-Khodary will refer to their beds as “Hamas strongholds”). Reuters
The Slaughter In Gaza
Posted January 5, 2009
on:This video is especially for our brothers and sisters those do not have clear picture about the Palestine.
Palestine
Palestine